Ecclesiastes 3: "There is a time for everything  …  a time to weep and a time to laugh,  a time to mourn and a time to dance …" The Bible speaks eloquently to the idea that grief and mourning are a part of life, and captures beautifully the cyclical nature of our experience, the wedding ... Read more

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.  16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. ... Read more

The gospel of Christ calls us, again and again, to reawaken from our social loneliness and fragmentation and return to our original family, and our original, Life-giving parent, whom John, in his New Testament letter, names as Love (1 John 4:7-10).  The Lord’s prayer, beginning with “Our Father” (Matthew 6:9, Luke 11:2), which Jesus gave us as ... Read more